Hawaiians got quite a shock when they received news of an incoming ballistic missile and were assured in the text alert that “this is not a drill.” It wasn’t a drill, but it was a mistake.

This Hawaii missle scare is on YOU Mr. Trump. The real FEAR that mothers & fathers & children felt is on YOU. It is on YOUR ARROGANCE. HUBRIS. NARCISSISM. RAGE. EGO. IMMATURITY and your UNSTABLE IDIOCY. Shame on your hate filled self. YOU DID THIS!

Your stupidity and ignorance is simply amazing…Seek HELP nitwit!! Bill Clinton aka Slick Willy is the one you need to be calling out! He helped fund NK so they could build nukes. FACTS MATTER but NOT to Trump haters like you and your ilk. SAD your hate blinds YOU! pic.twitter.com/JeTbUAed3H

It’s reasonable that citizens be warned of an incoming missile … but it comes with it’s own risks. Someone makes a mistake … other people in the chain make mistakes assuming the first mistake was not a mistake … then some guy at the end of the chain pushes a button and starts a war. It could happen on either side … including via allies of the primary antagonists … and I want that guy at the end of the chain who has button pushing authority to be a level headed bloke … not some friggin’ arrogant, self aggrandizing, impatient, petulant, ignorant, cry baby nutcase such as we have leading NK and America. IMO Jamie got that part right.

Here is how this works. Regardless of whether some moron activates the State of Hawaii civil notification system it would not trigger any response from either the US or NK. Why, you ask? because the warning system is the END POINT of the whole attack/response program, not the beginning. In order for the US to launch a retaliatory strike on anyone, it has to be approved by several people at several levels, all of whom act as fail safes. The reason is so that your worse case scenario is extremely unlikely to occur; i.e. one loon pushes a button and set in motion a devastating chain of events. If the NK launch on any US territory, Pyongyang will be leveled by sundown of the next day.

No, idiot, Hawaii is not the end point, the warning system is the end point. The warning is triggered by someone hearing on the news that a missile is coming in. The missile can’t be triggered by the warning.

A notification to Hawaii civil defense notification from a federal office up the response chin COULD trigger a notification being sent. However, if published accounts are accurate on this, the transmission was triggered within the Hawaii civil defense notification office itself by a technician, allegedly during a routine systems check at shift change, and did noit originate at the federal level.

Normal people look at a problem, perform a root cause analysis, and then lay blame on those who caused the problem. You seem to have adopted the childish approach of disliking a person and then seeking problems on to which you can blame him.

Well, I smell coverup. I would suspect they were hacked, rather than a “mistake”. Who’s to say the NOKO’s didn’t hack them to create havoc? Think “rocket boy” wouldn’t do such a thing? Think about if he did, and then followed up (hours or days later) with a REAL attack. Look to Tuesday when the markets are open. Okay, removing tin-foil hat now…

So somebody made a proactive mistake — the source of which, whether hacking or other needs to be revealed, but a proactive mistake is certainly better than nothing. I think Hawaii is in a somewhat precarious position, but civil preparedness is hardly unwarranted. I personally doubt a NK missile could hit the islands, but… if the US or Japan detect a launch toward either country, we should immediately take out mucho NK military capability — preferably with cruise missiles, but maybe a nuke reminder.

Can we all agree that the civilian government in Hawaii is incompetent? To make a “Life is about to end” warning system with no instructions for anyone being warned what to do next, is about as stupid as telling an airplane full of passengers that they are all going to die. Any such dire warning system should have multiple steps before activation can be made. Then to take 38 minutes to correct it is felonious! Does Hawaii have any kind of civil defense network that has pre-issued steps for the public to comply with? Otherwise, what is the point of the warning? They are basically back to the airplane warning that they are all going to die! Inbreeding has its weaknesses.